Naked Poets -

Great photo of William Carlos Williams - the most famous poet to feature in 'Poets Without Clothes' at http://poetswithoutclothes.tumblr.com/ any contemporary poets :-)

bp Nichol republished

Charles Alexander: Very happy that the book Chax Press published by bpNichol in 1990, "Art Facts: a book of contexts," is now the third and final part of the massive "a book of variations: love--zygal--art facts." 

Truly, as Charles Bernstein says on the back cover, "This is bpNichol at his young, whimsical, charming, sweet, magical, formally inventive, childlike, zany, fecund, h-h-h-heavenly best. A total delight from beginning to beginning again."

 Published by Coach House Press, Toronto, 2013. Ed. and with introduction by Stephen Voyce

Issa Haiku

if someone comes
change into frogs!
cooling melons


1813

.人来たら蛙になれよ冷し瓜
hito kitara kawazu to nare yo hiyashi uri

This whimsical haiku inspired the title of Matthew Gollub's children's book about Issa: Cool Melons--Turn To Frogs!: The Life and Poems of Issa (New York: Lee & Low Books, 1998). Illustrations by Kazuko G. Stone.

The poem is, indeed, one that has helped to earn for Issa the reputation of being a "child's poet." Issa probably wouldn't mind this label, as long as we hasten to add that he's a "grown-up's poet" too. In fact, one could argue that his childlike way of looking at the world--innocently, playfully, imaginatively, without preconceptions--is more aimed at his adult readers than at children. Adults have so much more to unlearn!

via David Gerard, the generous man behind Daily Issa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dailyissa/

'Delight in Disorder' - a favourite of mine

 

"Delight in Disorder"
by Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in clothes a wantonesse:
A Lawne about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction:
An erring Lace, which here and there
Enthralls the Crimson Stomacher:
A Cuffe neglectfull, and thereby
Ribbands to flow confusedly:
A winning wave (deserving Note)
In the tempestuous petticote:
A carelesse shooe-string, in whose tye
I see a wilde civility:
Doe more bewitch me, than when Art
Is too precise in every part.

Catherine Barnett Comments:When I was a child I loved the "What's Wrong With This Picture?" page in the Highlights my dentist kept in his waiting room, which were never as unsettling as Bishop's National Geographic but which nonetheless helped pass the time. I find I'm still fascinated and compelled by mistakes, by the pleasure of unexpected juxtapositions, and by imperfections whose "sweet disorder" can often carry the mind into its own eddies of "fine distraction." (Teeth that are separated by a gap, and therefore "imperfect," are called "les dents du bonheur"—teeth of happiness.) A friend of mine, the wonderful documentary photographer John Lucas, once took a series of portraits of his friends and doctored the photos so that the two sides of the face were exact mirror images of each other; the face's natural asymmetry was transformed into an eerie perfection, leading us perhaps into the uncanny valley against which Herrick, in "Delight in Disorder," protests.

Herrick's poem makes me aware of the tension between order and chaos that animates, destabilizes, and makes wonderfully mysterious my own practice of both writing and living. It also makes me think of some of my favorite poems, which address similar concerns, sending me back to Yeats's "Adam's Curse," to so much of Stevens, and to Bishop, including "The Bight," whose "untidy activity continues, / awful but cheerful," and "Filling Station," where "Somebody / arranges the rows of cans / so that they softly say: / ESSO—SO—SO—SO / to high-strung automobiles. / Somebody loves us all." In Bishop's "At the Fishhouses," the speaker's eye looks back and forth between order and chaos, between "the scales, the principal beauty" and the "unnumbered fish" scraped "with that black old knife, / the blade of which is almost worn away."

Watching poets at work—by looking at their drafts, their "stitching and unstitching"—illustrates the tug-of-war between chaos and order. Sometimes what starts out orderly moves toward the disorderly, as in Dickinson's drafts for "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" in which she changes her initial "bold delight" to "infirm delight," a change that holds the same kind of paradox found in Herrick's wonderful "wilde civility," which is my favorite moment in Herrick's poem. (In an 1862 letter to T. W. Higginson, Dickinson asked, "Are these more orderly? I thank you for the Truth—I had no Monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself, and when I try to organize—my little Force explodes—and leaves me bare and charred—I think you called me 'Wayward.'")

"Delight in Disorder" also feels like a stay against death insofar as death's "Art / Is too precise in every part." In Dickinson's "It was not Death, for I stood up," for example, "The Figures I have seen" are "Set orderly, for Burial." Plath's "The Munich Mannequins" asserts "Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children." But the verbs in Herrick's poem—"kindles", "enthralls," "bewitch"—contrast dramatically with the passive "Is" of the final precision; the close of the poem is much more orderly than the preceding lines—it's only here that the rhyme is perfect, too perfect perhaps.

Launch invite from Pam Brown to YOU

Dear Friends & Contemporary Poetry Aficionados

You are invited to celebrate

a new poetry collection
from Shearsman Books:

"Home by Dark"
       by
 Pam Brown

to be launched by
Anna Gibbs

on Sunday 28th April at 3pm

at
Parkview Hotel
Corner Mitchell Rd & Harley St
Alexandria
Sydney

Everyone welcome

For further details, directions, and more
please visit this link :

http://thedeletions.blogspot.com.au/

Looking forward to seeing you there

Benjamin - This just about wraps it up!

13.The work is the death mask of its conception. - Walter Benjamin

New poem up at The Wonder Book of Poetry

POETRY

‘In poetry, being off duty is / part of the job.’ – Bernstein


Terms and conditions apply.


- Andrew Burke http://wonderbookofpoetry.org/

PCWC's Advanced Poets Workshop Series for 2013/14

Register your expression of interest for PCWC's Advanced Poets Workshop Series for 2013/14!

 

Following on from the success of the 2011 and 2012 Advanced Poets Workshops culminating in the anthologies 'Sunlight of Ordinary Days' and 'Breath of the Sea', PCWC will be offering the series again.

We are currently finalising the program with the series to be split over the later half of 2013, concluding in the first half of 2014. Professor Glen Phillips will be co-ordinating the series with PCWC, with different facilitators for each session.

The series will run from 1.30 - 4.30 pm on the third Saturday of the month from:
... June through to November 2013 (6 classes); and
March through to July 2014 (5 classes).

Cost will be $425 Members and $490 Non-members for the whole series.

If you would like to receive further information on the preliminary program, selection criteria and to express your interest, please e-mail PCWC: cowan05@bigpond.com with the subject: Advanced Poets 2013/14. Please include your name and contact details.

Final participant selection for the series will be based on the selection criteria as has been the case in previous years.

My first Amazon review

'Recalculating' surprises at every turn, April 21, 2013

By

andrew burke

This review is from: Recalculating (Hardcover)
I believe one of the many qualities of a poet is a desire to keep knocking down the fences, to keep expanding the definition of poetry by writing more imaginative forms and by refreshing the content of poetry since time immemorial. This is one of the key reasons I like Charles Bernstein as a poet. No, I don't like everything he writes, but I sure like the way he writes it. In 'Recalculating' he again unsettles any set ideas I have about what is a 'good' poem or what is a 'bad' poem, so much so that I no longer judge. Isn't that refreshing! There are wonderful rich reviews about this work all over the Net: my main delight in this collection is that again it wasn't what I was expecting. And yet that was exactly what I was hoping for. Frivolous forms with serious thought behind them; a cartoon page; thoughts on his daughter's passing ... These are the main ingredients, but I wouldn't separate this work (except its beautiful cover) from his previous work. It is an extension, a multi-streamed extension which will fall into place with all his other wor4ks to come when they too have settled.
If you have a philosophical mind that likes to play as well as sing, maybe scat singing more than rap, then read Bernstein and 'recalculate' your poetic canon.

Newcastle Poetry Prize entries NOW OPEN

Entries to the Newcastle Poetry Prize are NOW OPEN!

You can enter either online or by post.

Go to the Enter page to submit your entry.

Check the Conditions page before entering.
Entries close 5pm AESTm Friday June 7, 2013.

  

'Modern Art Desserts': How To Bake A Mondrian In Your Oven

from The Salt
by Heidi Glenn

April 17, 201310:15 AM

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  The Rosana Castrillo Diaz Panna Cotta (right), patterned after Diaz's 2009 Untitled installation. The dessert is a maple yogurt and creme fraiche panna cotta with St. Elizabeth allspice dram gelee and luster dust.

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  Alejandra Cartagena's photograph Fragmented Cities, Juarez #2 was the inspiration for Freeman's Cartagena vanilla ice cream and sorbet trio.

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  Tony Cragg Ice Cream Cone, inspired by the artist's 1987 sculpture Guglie, uses salted caramel and malted milk-chocolate ice cream, a brown sugar cone and a custom cone wrapper.

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  John Zurier's minimalist painting Arabella (2005) inspired these simple strawberry-and-mint popsicles.

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  Art 2005 John Zurier/Dessert photo courtesy Charles Villyard

       

As an artist, Caitlin Freeman found her calling in cake.

Freeman started out wanting to be an art photographer. But one day, while still in art school, she came across Display Cakes, artist Wayne Thiebaud's 1963 painting of frosted confections, during a visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The image was so arresting, it stayed with her for years, and later inspired her to set off on a completely different career path: baking.

"I wasn't really sure what I loved about [the painting], but I really just became obsessed with cakes," Freeman tells The Salt.

Over the past several years, Freeman has made a name for herself by crafting desserts inspired by the great works of modern art on display at SFMOMA. She sells these edible art bites at the Blue Bottle Coffee bar, the cafe she and her husband, Blue Bottle founder James Freeman, operate inside the museum.

The project started as a cake-with-your-coffee concept. Appropriately enough, one of the first modern art sweets she put on the menu was an homage to Thiebaud. These days, she has a full menu of desserts — and some savory items, too — that gets updated as often as new art exhibits rotate through the museum.

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In their hands, the bathing suit pattern in a beach portrait from photographer Rineke Dijkstra becomes a striped icebox cake. A layered trifle echoes the horizontal lines of color in Ocean Park #122 by Richard Diebenkorn.

And then there's the cafe's most popular item, a dessert inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, featuring geometric blocks of white velvet cake, colored red, blue and yellow, stacked together and "glued" with chocolate. In her new book, Modern Art Desserts, which came out this week, Freeman details how to make this signature confection: It's a two-day effort involving four separate cakes and assembly blueprints.

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*Images reprinted with permission from Modern Art Desserts: Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Confections, and Frozen Treats Based on Iconic Works of Art, by Caitlin Freeman, copyright (c) 2013. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
The SFMOMA will soon close for renovations for three years. Until the museum and café reopen, you can find Freeman online at her blog, Modern Art Desserts, telling the stories behind her work-of-art desserts.

Submission call for "On Barcelona"

:: Recently at On Barcelona: Elizabeth Terrazas, Mark Prudowsky, Taylor
Reid, Volodymyr Bilyk, John Oliver Simon, Diana Magallón, Alicia Salinas,
Niels Hav . . .

New work is always welcome. Send to halvard@gmail.com with your name and On
Barcelona in your subject line. Shake a leg.

Charles Baudelaire, poet

“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“An artist is a kaleidoscope endowed with consciousness…an ego athirst for the non-ego, and reflecting it at every moment in energies more vivid than life itself, always inconstant and fleeting. The poet is like those wandering souls who go looking for a body, he enters as he likes into each man’s personality. For him alone everything is vacant…The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusc in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts to his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.”

- Charles Baudelaire

2013 Pulitzers Honor Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds

 

Poet Sharon Olds won the Pulitzer for Stag's Leap, a collection of poems that resulted, as Tess Taylor wrote for NPR in late 2012, from Olds' impressions of the end of her marriage. It includes these lines:

"I show no anger but in flashes of humor,
all is courtesy and horror."

In her review, Taylor said that Stag's Leap "moves beyond Olds to offer an alphabet of grieving, to gather a shape of losing, as well as perhaps offering us some clues about beginning anew."

More HERE

Culture in the hands of Bean-counters!

 

"An attack on a culture's language is an efficacious way of destroying the culture itself, and scrapping an alphabet seemed to me to be the thin edge of the wedge. How dare they condemn an alphabet that had been adapted from Phoenician script as early as the eighth century BCE, while English and German writing lagged far behind?"

Read on HERE.

 

Bathe in the serenity of Bombay Jayashri's glorious vocals as she takes you on a journey through traditional Indian music. Bombay Jayashri's Pi's Lullaby from Life of Pi was an Oscar nominee for Best Original Song.

Quote of the Day

 "Tell me whom you love, and I’ll tell you who you are." – Creole Proverb

Issa haiku

on top of a stake
eyeing Edo...
a frog


1825

.棒杭に江戸を詠る蛙哉
bôgui ni edo wo nagamuru kawazu kana

NOTE: Edo is today's Tokyo.

To receive an Issa haiku daily, often with an accompanying note, send to david1gerard@hotmail.com
mentioning Issa Haiku in the subject line.

Should SBS have ads?

 

I just participated in a very important survey on SaveOurSBS.org and ask you to do the same.

Should SBS have ads? It does not take long to answer some basic multiple choice questions to convey your views about the annoying­ in-program ad breaks, SBS relevance, commercial influence, Charter adherence, public funding, what you expect of SBS - and - do you want the ads?

The data collected might better SBS and your input, like mine, could make a difference. In the public good, please take part in this short important survey.

All our views are important. Please look at www.survey.saveoursbs.org now.

Larf - from John Tranter

Photo: Two capybaras anxiously discussing Wittgenstein’s apparent rejection of some of the key propositions of his «Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus» (1921). filched from HERE

September on Jessore Road, by Allen Ginsberg

A poem written and sung by Allen Ginsberg in support of Bangladesh - from the Allen Ginsberg Project, a blog I often visit :

"A couple of weeks back Allen was honored as one of the national heroes of the liberation struggle for the creation/establishment of the modern state of Bangladesh ."September on Jessore Road", it seems, had, in 1971, an extraordinary effect in publicizing the appalling plight of the refugees and spreading word on the refugee-crisis there. Bob Rosenthal and Peter Hale, of the Ginsberg Estate, flew out to the official ceremonies to accept the award on Allen's behalf. 

Here's a few notes about (and selected images from) what was, clearly, a truly remarkable occasion..."

Read on at http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/fridays-weekly-round-up-121.html

Launch: 'Beside Rivers' by Susan Adams

To be launched by Les Wicks.

at Friend in Hand Hotel, 58 Cowper St Glebe

Saturday May 11, 2.30 for 3pm

"In exploring human joy and suffering, this volume represents the extremes of our existence: the heights and depths we are capable of. Susan Adams seeks out and conjures every detail with unflinching precision." Rae Desmond Jones.

If you can’t make it copies can be purchased from

Island Press $20 at: http://islandpress.tripod.com/ISLAND.htm

or mail cheque payable to Susan Adams,

Box 17N Dangar Island 2083 with your address

or email susan.adams444@gmail.com&

a Paypal payment can be arranged.

Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize - Open Now!

The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize has been endowed by Bruce Dawe, one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary poets, as an annual $2000 award to encourage poets throughout Australia.

The endowment is held in trust by the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, and administered by the Faculty of Arts. The prize is judged by the English Literature staff of the Faculty, chaired by Professor Chris Lee.

Bruce Dawe said the decision to endow the prize stemmed from a belief that all universities should encourage the practice of the arts within Australian society. It is hoped that this prize will encourage established and emerging Australian poets and to recognise the important contribution they make to our culture.

The competition opens on 1 March and closes on 30 June each year. The winner is contacted personally and announced on this website in early October.

Entry

Entrants are encouraged to read the Conditions of Entry (PDF* 76KB) prior to completing the Entry Form (PDF* 97KB).

2012 winner

This year's prize winner is John Watson for his poem Leaving No Wake.

Previous winning poems

Previous entries which have won the Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize are:

• 2011 - Lisa A. Jacobson (PDF* 78KB)
• 2010 - Ray Liversidge (PDF* 76KB)
• 2009 - Andrew Slattery (PDF* 97KB)

Further information

The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize
Faculty of Arts
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba QLD 4350
Phone: +61 7 4631 1065
Fax: +61 7 4631 1063
Email: daweprize@usq.edu.au

Uneven Floor wants poems - Submit now

Uneven Floor, an independent online poetry magazine published out of Perth, Western Australia, is now accepting submissions. It accepts poems in text, video, audio or image form. If contributing audio or video, accompanying text would be appreciated but is not essential.

 

Uneven Floor is biased toward new and unsung poets and poets from Western Australia, but will consider work by better-known poets and poets from elsewhere.

 

For all the details visit unevenfloorpoetry.blogspot.com. Please watch your step.

Edited by Jackson

Jackson: Words with attitude & soul.

'Recoil Four' launch at the Moon Cafe SATURDAY 2pm

Mulla Mulla Press will be launching RECOIL FOUR

at the Perth Poetry Club 13 April 2013

2 - 4 pm Moon Cafe 323 William Street Northbridge ...

 

RECOIL FOUR is an annual zine to celebrate

twelve guest readers of 2012...Mulla Mulla Press

is donating the zine to Perth Poetry Club as

a fund raiser . So come along and get your copy!

 

If you can't get there, buy from Mulla Mulla Press

at http://www.mullamullapress.com/

 

 

Recording Images: Robbie Coburn reviews ‘Flying Low in the Minor Key” by Anthony Lawrence

 

first published on Rochford Street Review by Mark Roberts 10/04/2013

Flying Low in the Minor Key by Anthony Lawrence, River Road Press, 2011.

Anthony Lawrence is unquestionably one of Australia's most important contemporary poets. Flying Low in the Minor Key, released on CD as part of the excellent River Road Poetry series, brings together 30 of Lawrence's finest poems spanning from his first collection to his most recent and uncollected work, read by the poet himself.

There is much to enjoy here, and it is clear this fine compilation has been delicately chosen to be listened to either in its entirety or simply as individual tracks.

The blurb for the release sums up Lawrence's style perfectly, as "perhaps the most Romantic of Australian poets” but the true appeal in Lawrence's work is in his stark imagery and diversity, and this collection is a wonderful display of his command over the lyrical, and the clear drive of narrative that runs fiercely through his verse.

This is evident from the moment the listener presses play in the fantastic opener "The Drive", which recounts a childhood incident involving the firebombing of a car, beginning with Lawrence remembering the drive to the police station with his father:

My father could not look at me as we sat in the back of a white Sedan
on our way to the police station
But I looked at him.
He was staring straight ahead through all the years his son
had disappointed him.

It is this no-holds-barred, controlled lyricism that separates the poet from many of his contemporaries, tackling less glamorous topics with clarity while still upholding his use of description, creating an atmosphere that is honest, confessional and compelling. The poem continues:

When the detectives arrived I was having a family portrait taken...
I ran behind the Sunday school buildings and confessed
to the lawn scraping currawongs,
I watched black smoke, like useless prayer, gutter into the Sydney sky.
The sirens were a long time coming.

While ultimately being an appreciation and acknowledgement of family that is hidden during the angst and turmoil of adolescence, as the poet and his parents now "talk... about the violent spirit of a teenage son", while sharing "their names" and "blood", Lawrence consistently manages to intertwine experience with evocative imagery, creating a visual element most written poetry fails to achieve.

Another standout is the award-winning and hauntingly atmospheric "The Rain":

Rain, and driving thoughts of rain, miles
and hours of it, inches and yards of light
and dark rain, where seamless cloud has been
stitched and gathered into a great undoing
of itself...

A heavily descriptive piece, water is a consistent theme in Lawrence's work, particularly in earlier collections The Darkwood Aquarium, Three Days Out of Tidal Town and Cold Wires of Rain, and becomes a foundation for much of the work presented here.

The poet has a particular appreciation for the alluring qualities of rivers and oceans in poems such as “The Trawler” and "Oceanography”, while the title poem, far different in subject describes "the night’s paint being prepared or still wet on the leaves and grass", as a change unexpectedly occurs.

The latter poem breaks away from Lawrence's usual take on the lyric, written in the 2nd person, creating vivid imagery that causes the listener to ponder its deeper meaning, revealing the impressive range and control of the poet’s voice. Lawrence characteristically writes from the point of view of a naturalist, and this piece effectively summarizes the collection as a whole.

Ultimately, this is a brilliant CD, presented in a beautifully printed cardboard sleeve that demands to be heard again and again, and would be enjoyed by any regular readers of Lawrence's work and indeed all lovers of good poetry.

To hear the poems is an experience far more intimate than simply reading in silence, and Flying Low in the Minor Key is moving and memorable listening, reaffirming why Lawrence, all these years on, remains at the forefront of Australian poetry.

- Robbie Coburn

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Robbie Coburn is a poet and writer from country Victoria. His first chapbook Human Batteries was published by Picaro Press in 2012. He can be found at  www.robbiecoburn.com

Flying Low in the Minor Key is available from River Road Press: http://www.riverroadpress.net/?page_id=331

Southerly Call for Submissions: Issue title: LYRE/LIAR

 

by Southerly

This issue of Southerly explores some emerging ethical implications of writing.

The two perspectives we wish to address are:

1)     Words as a life-giving or life-taking tool: arguably the most powerful weapon we possess, language, is a reflection of our own attitude to ourselves and the rest of the world. Writing in/for the public domain, its potential impact on the readership and the ethical implications thereof compel us to constantly examine our views and language choices.

2)     Writing as a moral outlet: does writing induce or supplant action in ‘real’ life?

Given the pressing ecological crisis, threatening the survival and wellbeing of humans and the rest of the natural world, the increasing evidence of human-nonhuman animal cognitive and affective comparability, and the recurrent dismissal of both in literature, we ask potential contributors to ponder points such as the following:

-        ‘naturalism’ and the revolt of nature

-        Writing and climate change

-        Writing and the ethics of sentience

-        Writing from the other: taking the nonhuman animal’s perspective

-        Writing and cognitive dissonance/doubling

-        Beauty and the beast – writing and the ethics of language choice

Please bear in mind that Southerly is primarily a journal of Australian literature and new Australian writing. Essays and articles primarily of a non-literary nature will not be considered.

For this issue we have a particular interest in stories and poetry concerning nonhuman animals and our relations to/with them.

Submissions of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction (essays) are welcome. Southerly will consider submissions of up to 5,000 words. The optimum length for essay submissions is 4,000 words.  Further submission guidelines can be found here.  Please consult these guidelines before contributing.

Chile successfully exhumes Neruda's body

By EVA VERGARA Associated Press

ISLA NEGRA, Chile April 8, 2013 (AP)

Chilean forensic experts exhumed the body of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda on Monday, trying to solve a four-decade mystery about the death of one the greatest poets of the 20th century.

The official version is that that the poet died from prostate cancer and the trauma of witnessing the 1973 military coup that led to the persecution and killing of many of his friends. But his driver and many other Chileans say Neruda was murdered by agents of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's brutal dictatorship.

Experts were concerned that high salinity and humidity could affect the exhumation at Neruda's home in Isla Negra, a rocky outcropping overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

But Patricio Bustos, head of Chile's medical legal service, said Neruda's casket is in good shape after the one-hour exhumation. After draping Neruda's coffin in the Chilean national flag, forensics workers took his remains to the capital for tests. They could also be analyzed abroad and Bustos said they have offers from labs in the United States and Europe.

Read on at http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/chile-successfully-exhumes-body-poet-neruda-18905584#.UWQX3YZ-9RA

Chamber Pot Poets #3, Woodend

The Chamber Art & Coffee House

90 High Street Woodend

Saturday 13th April, 2013, 2pm – 4pm

Entry: Gold coin donation

two of Melbourne's favorite poets:

Grant Caldwell and Maurice McNamara

Plus Open Section

Compered by: Myron Lysenko

Enquiries: myronpoet@hotmail.com

Ad Lib goes West

Claim back our streets! Poetry Vine 2013 at the Raft Gallery.
  A request to poets to submit a handwritten poem on coloured paper. All poems will be hung from the canopy of the Raft Gallery during May 2013. The public will be invited to read a poem, taken it home or leave it there on the poem vine. Please submit your hand written and signed poem to Raft Gallery 96 Bawdan Street, Willagee 6156. You have all of April to submit your poems.

The launch of Ron Oakleys book 'The Bedroom Door' on Sunday 5th May, 2013 at 2pm.

 Ron invites you to comealong for the launch of his book by Rose van Son at 29 Kingsdown Road, Maddington. Refreshments provided. The cost of the book on the day will be $20.00, part of which will go to national research for Myasthenia Gravis.

'Trees I’ve loved, trees I’ve lost' - submissions asked for by ABC and 360Documentaries

 

"In the project, Trees I’ve loved, trees I’ve lost—a joint ABC Pool and 360documentaries initiative—we’re calling for your stories of trees.

Thoughtful, poetic, reflections: whether in love or in loss. "

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/trees-i27ve-loved/4565322

New Yorker cartoon

Melaleuca submissions

Submission guidelines: email 2-5 poems, any length, any style, any genre to Phillip Ellis at
phillip@phillipaellis.com in the body of a single RTF or DOC attachment. No bios are needed;
cover letters are welcome. We accept previously published material and simultaneous submissions;
if work is published prior to its appearance in Melaleuca you must advise us accordingly, so that
proper attribution can be made.

NEWCASTLE POETRY PRIZE - Now Open

One of Australia's oldest & most distinguished literary prizes ~ celebrating 32 years in 2013 ~ $20,000 prize pool ~ Entries close 5pm AEST, June 7, 2013

 

Enter

Entries to the Newcastle Poetry Prize are NOW OPEN and will close 5pm AEST, Friday June 7, 2013. Follow the instructions below for your chosen method of entry (online or by post).

Enter online

1. Pay the entry fee ($33.00):

Direct deposit (no extra processing fee):Account Name: Hunter Writers Centre IncorporatedBSB: 650-000Account number: 965980308Reference: NPP + your name

By credit card (incurs processing fee):

Click the red Paymate Express button below and take note of your receipt number.

2. Enter online here. Online entry is simple: you’ll be asked to input your contact details, record your direct deposit reference or Paymate receipt number and attach your entry as a Word document or PDF.
Or enter by post

1. Download an entry form here (then fill out and print).
2. Print 3 x copies of your poem.
3. Include a cheque or money order (payable to Hunter Writers Centre) for the entry fee of $33.00.
4. Mail the entry form, 3 x copies of your poem and cheque to Hunter Writers’ Centre, PO Box 71, Hamilton, NSW, 2303, Australia. You can also direct debit (details above).

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Questions

If you have any questions about the entry process, please email us at newcastlepoetryprize@gmail.com or phone Hunter Writers Centre on 02 4926 3485.

Miles Franklin list features 8 women authors

Author Romy Ash, in Melbourne yesterday, is on the Miles Franklin longlist for her debut novel Floundering.

Picture: David Geraghty. Source: The Australian

 

TWO years after the Miles Franklin Literary Award was derided as a "sausagefest" for its all-male shortlist, the longlist for the 2013 prize is dominated by women. 
              
Eight of the ten longlisted titles for the $60,000 prize are by female authors: Romy Ash for Floundering, Lily Brett for Lola Bensky, Michelle de Kretser for Questions of Travel, Annah Faulkner for The Beloved, Drusilla Modjeska for The Mountain, ML Stedman for The Light Between Oceans, Carrie Tiffany for Mateship with Birds and Jacqueline Wright for Red Dirt Talking.

The two male writers in contention are veterans of the Australian literary scene: two-time Miles Franklin winner and Booker Prize recipient Tom Keneally, for The Daughters of Mars, and Brian Castro for Street to Street, his fifth shortlisting for Australia’s most important book prize.
Read on HERE.

 

Where the wild things grow - SATURDAY 2pm Perth Poetry Club @ The Moon Cafe

6th April: Annamaria Weldon and Helen Hagemann

Annamaria Weldon’s writing goes to the world’s edge where flora, fauna, poetry and other wild things grow. At Perth Poetry Club she will read from her popular collection The Roof Milkers (Sunline Press 2008) and from her forthcoming nature book, to be published by UWAP in 2013/14. Annamaria has won the Creatrix, Ena Taylor and Tom Collins Poetry Prizes and was short-listed in the ABR’s latest Peter Porter Poetry Prize.




















Helen Hagemann's first literary collection “Evangelyne & Other Poems” was published by the Australian Poetry Centre in their New Poets Series 2009.  She recently completed a new collection which is forthcoming in August 2013 with Sunline Press. 






 

The Good, The Bad & the Ugly

This is fantastic. Turn it up nice and loud and enjoy. For those still caught in the '60s groove -- this is the answer to how that magnificent signature tune came about. Superb....wait till the guy whistles!!!


THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN - THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pLgJ7pk0X-s

Thanks to Glen Phillips for putting me on to this one.

 

 

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BlazeVOX's National Poetry Month Limerick Contest!

 -Win a free book with your limerick

Holy cats, it's true. We [BlazeVOX] are inaugurating a National Poetry Month email contest
for limericks. We provide the first two lines and you write out the rest and send
to us by email. The top three entries of the month will win a BlazeVOX book from
our extensive catalog of fine books! So get writing and do stop by our shop to
see which title you'll choose when you win! So hurray!

According to Wikipedia, a limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem,
especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme
scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent.

Please send your limerick to Clarice Waldman, care of limerick@blazevox.org

Informal rules:

- There is no fee to enter.

- Please send up to three limericks per person, per monthly contest.

- We will not use any of your information to track you, send you unwanted emails
 or sell  your information for any reason what so ever.

- This is only for fun, so yes, obscene poems are considered just fine.

- Prizes will be sent to 3 people for their winning poems, which will be posted
in our blog.

- Winners will be informed by email and they can pick one [1] BlazeVOX book, which
is currently in production and available in our store. http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/Shop/

- Please send your limerick to Clarice Waldman, care of limerick@blazevox.org

Sincerely,
Geoffrey Gatza
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BlazeVOX Limerick Contest

Choose any of these first two lines from these limericks to work on your own limerick:

1 -

To his friend, Ned said, rather blue,

"My wife Jenny just told me we're through,

2 -

A monkey who live in the zoo

Got terribly bored with the view

3 -

A worthy writer, history relates

Was scuffling with some of his mates

4 -

A very rude boy from down the Hall

Wrote these very funny words on a wall

5 -

There once was a poet from Peru

Who had a lot of growing up to do,

6 -

A bather whose clothing was strewed

By winds that left her quite nude

7-

There was an old goat with a beard

Who said, "it's just how I feared!

8 -

There once was a poet from the south;

Who rarely opened her mouth.

9 -

A new farmer's hand named Mull

Accidentally began milking a bull

10 -

Once a young poet of literature

Whose reader completely forsook her.

opportunities for poets

The Cube at QUT is one of the world's largest digital display environments for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) learning. They've just launched a residency for digital artists and writers to develop a project that pushes creative and technological boundaries. The chosen Digital Writing Resident will get $35,000 in financial support, as well as a host of in-kind support. Applications close 3 April 2013 - for more information and guidelines, visit their website.

Mark Tredinnick is calling for submissions of poetry for Australian Love Poems 2013, to be published by new Australian press Inkerman & Blunt, a new Australian press. They are looking for poems that explore all aspects of love: the dark and the light of it and everything in between. Submissions open close at midnight 26 April 2013. For more information and submission guidelines, visit the Inkerman & Blunt website.

 

The John Knight Memorial Poetry Manuscript Prize honours the spirit of a Queensland poet, haijin, editor and publisher John Knight. In its first year in 2013, this is a prize for an unpublished poetry manuscript. The winning manuscript will be edited and published by Fence Post Press, in association with Erudite Scribe Writing Editing and Publishing. The competition closes on 17 May 2013. More details available online.

The Montreal International Poetry Prize is accepting original English-language poems from around the world. A cash prize of $20,000 Canadian will be awarded to the winning entrant, and an additional fifty selected poems will be published in the Montreal Prize Global Anthology. Entries close 11:59pm GMT on 31 May 2013. Applications must be made online - visit the website for entry fee and submission details.

You are invited to submit up to three poems for a new anthology of Australian speculative poetry. The Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry will be edited by Tim Jones (NZ) and P.S. Cottier (Australia) and published by Interactive Publications of Queensland 2014. Speculative poetry encompasses science fiction, horror, fantasy, and magic realism. Submissions close on 4 June 2013. Please visit the website for submission guidelines.

Dangerously Poetic Press and the Byron Bay Writer’s Festival are co-sponsoring a national poetry prize to be awarded at the festival in August. Poets are invited to write up to 40 lines on the theme Ordinary Miracles - poems of the wondrous and strange. Poetry is best equipped to find language for the ineffable, numinous moments we all experience. First prize includes $500, a 3-day pass to the festival, and publication. Submissions close 7 June 2013. Visit the website for more details.

Cordite Issue 43: MASQUE is now open for submissions, with poetry guest editor Ann Vickery. "This issue will be the Masque. An invitation is extended to displays of Devices and Mythic Mayhem, Stage Effects and Staged Affect." Submissions close 14 June 2013. Visit the website for more details.

Black Inc. is accepting submission for The Best Australian Poems 2013 to be edited by Lisa Gorton. Please send up to three poems – recent work only, published or unpublished (previously published work must have been published after 1 August 2012). Deadline for submissions is 1 August 2013, but early submission would be appreciated. For details visit the Black Inc. website.

Thanks to Queensland Poetry Festival for this list, available originally HERE.